postyX - July 18, 2026


George Bernard Shaw was a Eugenicist


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00:00:00.000 So George Bernard Shaw and Edward R. Peace, a longtime secretary.
00:00:06.140 And the funny when I was researching this, the funny thing about George Bernard Shaw, I don't know if you guys know, but in Ontario, they have what's called the Shaw Festival.
00:00:16.260 It's to celebrate him and his works.
00:00:18.000 Well, I don't know if these, you know, because generally people who support like these are artsy fartsy things are liberals, left wing.
00:00:25.780 but a thing about George Bernard Shaw is he was a very staunch eugenicist but of course here in
00:00:33.100 Progressive Canada we celebrate him through the Shaw Festival so it's funny that he hasn't been
00:00:37.960 cancelled yet but some of the other great actual Canadian heroes because George Bernard Shaw never
00:00:42.680 even stepped foot in Canada are being taken down their statues are being taken down the Shaw was a
00:00:47.980 very staunch eugenicist to the point where it wasn't just white people it was people who were
00:00:52.800 had any kind of disability or anything like that, he believed in pure eugenicism. Everybody has to 0.55
00:00:58.980 be perfect, but it's funny how leftism works that way. The people who designed the welfare state,
00:01:04.860 who founded the London School of Economics, who wrote Labour's constitution, simultaneously and 0.62
00:01:11.800 openly advocated eugenics. They argued for forced sterilization. They argued for lethal chambers.
00:01:20.280 They published statements about eliminating the people they deemed unfit for society.
00:01:25.460 And they did not publish these things under pseudonyms or in private correspondence that only came to light decades later.
00:01:33.300 They published them under their real names in mainstream publications during their lifetimes.
00:01:38.700 So see what I said, how they had no shame.
00:01:41.780 They were able to do that and publish that stuff and not get cancelled.
00:01:44.900 and here in modern day Canada or the West
00:01:49.000 you can't even say that you don't like Indians
00:01:51.180 without being docks and having your life ruined
00:01:53.220 so isn't it funny how far we've come from there
00:01:57.040 and a lot of this has to do with their policies 0.99
00:01:59.420 like they were the kind of beginning of this shit 0.99
00:02:02.340 they were not embarrassed 0.99
00:02:04.620 they were convinced
00:02:06.100 George Bernard Shaw
00:02:08.380 Nobel Prize winner in literature
00:02:10.740 co-founder of the London School of Economics
00:02:13.720 the man who designed the famous Fabian stained glass window, one of the most celebrated and
00:02:20.360 widely read figures in early 20th century British intellectual life. In 1903, in the appendix to his
00:02:28.500 play Man and Superman, he wrote that the only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialism
00:02:35.680 of the selective breeding of man. In 1910, he appeared before the Eugenics Education Society,
00:02:43.260 and his lecture was reported in the Daily Express on the 4th of March.
00:02:48.900 He said that part of eugenic politics would finally land them in an extensive use of the lethal chamber.
00:02:55.880 He said a great many people would have to be put out of existence
00:02:58.800 simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.